September 27th, 2009 
Chris Courtesy: Pitchfork
“Black Lips’ Jared Swilley Attacks Wavves,” read a headline here on Pitchfork back in June. In that article, the Black Lips dude was laying into Wavves’ Nathan Williams, telling Norwegian radio station NRK, “I’ve heard stories from others that he’s like a real dick. And just like a baby, thought he was really cool.”
Well, the war of words has escalated into physical violence, but the roles are reversed: according to the blog PopJew, and as posted by Brooklyn Vegan, Williams attacked Swilley, injuring him at a confrontation at the Williamsburg bar Daddy’s following a Wavves show Friday night at the Market Hotel.
Or did he? As is often the case with drunken brawls in the wee hours of the morning, “what really happened” depends on whom you ask. The he said/he said details, as known at this time, are below the jump.
According to PopJew, the beginning of the fight was unclear, but there was an altercation that spiraled out of control:
“I didn’t see the beginning, but I did see people dragging Nathan and Jared apart, and then Jared and a popular DJ running at Nathan again, spilling beer all over everyone (including me), and punches being thrown. The lights at Daddy’s were turned on, the cops showed up, but Jared and the chick were not ready to stop fighting and were even trying to fight other people outside the bar. Jared was bloody. Nathan was fine.”
Yesterday, Williams issued a statement, posted by Brooklyn Vegan and confirmed by his publicist, explaining his side of the story:
“Talking shit about me on the Internet is one thing, I can handle that all day but when some dude is just looking for a fight at 4 in the morning talking shit to my face and his girlfriend is spitting in the face of all my friends it’s a whole different story. I have no problem wih [sic] black lips or anybody else that i havent met but jared has been at me every chance he had. I just want to play music and have fun. It was unfortunate that it escalated to that point but he got what was coming to him.”
But then today Buddyhead spoke to Swilley, and he had a very different version of events:
“First of all, I just wanna say that Wavves was NOT involved in that fight. That faggot didn’t even touch me.
I’ve never ‘come after’ that kid, it wasn’t four a.m., that wasn’t my girlfriend, no one was spitting, and I didn’t attack him. I don’t give a shit about that kid and his music.
What happened was, after we finished our set I went to Daddy’s with some friends and saw that faggot from Wavves talking to a photographer friend of mine. The only thing I did was walk up to him and say ‘You’re that faggot from Wavves and I don’t like you’. He smiled a bit but didn’t say anything.
After that, I went outside and saw their tour manager hanging around with some guys. They started getting all chuckles with me and so I told them I wasn’t gonna have it. After that, Wavves tour manager hit me square in the face with a bottle. Blood started pouring out and six dudes fucking started kicking me until I blacked out.
All I remember is getting hit with the bottle and my friends dragging me to another bar. They wrapped my head up until I looked like a Confederate soldier.
So yeah, I lost the fight.
I also missed three flights. I’ve been in the airport all day having stewardesses cleaning my head because it kept cracking open. You can’t go on board if you’re bleeding.
Bottom line is that faggot from Wavves didn’t even hit me. Never touched me. And he should’ve, cuz he had a free shot.
He’s coming to Atlanta October 3rd and we’re gonna get ugly on him. We’re gonna destroy their van, we’re gonna destroy their faces, we’re gonna get crazy on em’. Nasty style.”
So there you have it: name-calling, a bloody melee, loose use of the word “faggot”, and a closing threat.
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